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Prophet-10 User’s Guide
Creating a Hard-Sync Lead
Turning Synth Brass into a String Pad
It’s a simple matter to turn the previous synth brass sound into a string
pad by simply adjusting its envelope and lter settings.
To turn the synth brass into a string pad:
1. Remove the “pitch blip” by turning off freq a in the Poly Mod section.
2. Use the keyboard switch to set keyboard lter tracking to half.
3. In the filter section, set the cutoff to 7 and resonance to 2.
4. In the filter envelope section, set the env amount to 0.
5. Set Filter Envelope attack to 5, decay to 6, sustain to 7, and release to
7.
6. Set Amplier Envelope attack to 5, decay to 5, sustain to 10, and
release to 6.
7. Use the the fine control in Oscillator B to adjust the amount of detun-
ing/chorusing.
8. Play some chords. You’ve now got a good basic string pad.
Creating a Hard-Sync Lead
Here’s another classic sound: a hard-sync lead. A famous example of this
is “Let’s Go” by the Cars, performed on a Prophet-5. In this example
you’ll learn how to hard-sync the oscillators, and pitch-modulate one of
them with Poly Mod.
To create a hard-sync lead:
1. Recall the basic preset by holding down record and pressing preset.
Oscillator A is set to sawtooth by default.
2. On Oscillator A, enable the sync button. (See page 20 for an expla-
nation of hard sync.)
3. Set Oscillator A frequency to 4. This will allow for a wide range of
pitch modulation in step.
4. In the poly mod section, enable freq a. This selects Oscillator A as the
destination.